How To: Make a Tangled Basket from Recycled Wires
This video from youtube user pixelcutter is rad. It is beautiful to see what a pair of human hands can create with straight-up tangled trash.
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In the Kitchen with Jarod: Savory Fruit Chutney
Continuing in this month’s upcycle tradition, Jarod Hermann shares his recipe for making savory chutney out of good fruit about to go bad. Chutney is an Indian accompaniment for a main dish, consisting of fruit, sugar, acid, salt, and spices. There are many, many kinds of chutney, but we’re going to focus on turning sweet […]
Runner’s “Not a Fanny Pack” Utility Belt
By Future Craft Collective When you embark upon your life as a runner, you swear you’ll never end up as one of those total geeks you see on the trail with their fanny packs slung oh-so-not-cool-ly on their hips, holding all their gear. But then you go out for your first big run and you […]
How To: Converse Birthday Cake
Alice Currah of The Savory Sweet Life created the most amazingly realistic Converse cakes for her nephew’s first birthday. The two little edible shoes are pretty much the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Alice’s post includes great shots of her process and she goes into detail not only about her construction method, but also explains […]
How-To: Build a super-Super Soaker
Over at Super Soaker Central (Ain’t the web great?), user JLspacemarine has posted this nicely-detailed build of a hardware-store constant pressure water gun. Although much heavier, it reportedly out-performs the commercial toys. [via Hack a Day]
NYC Beekeeping Ban Lifted
PT @ Make: Online points us to this NY Times article about allowing NYC beekeeping! New York City is among the few jurisdictions in the country that deem beekeeping illegal, lumping the honeybee together with hyenas, tarantulas, cobras, dingoes and other animals considered too dangerous or venomous for city life. But the honeybee’s bad rap […]
How-To: Peeps Bunny Bunting
Regardless of your opinion on the taste and texture of Peeps, this Peep bunny bunting from Dana of MADE is the perfect spring decoration with just a touch of humor.